A new survey showed that majoring in accounting might be the best bet for many college graduates. According to the National Association of Colleges & Employers, 68 percent of the most recent accounting majors received job offers — the highest percentage of any major.
The report stated that the unemployment rate for accountants currently stands at just 4.1 percent and
Forbes.com recently ranked accountants and auditors as the second top job for 2013 behind software
developers. Accounting, engineering and computer science ranked as the three majors “mostly like to get job offers,” the reported said.
The survey stated that 65 percent of graduates expect to enter the workforce immediately upon leaving school, while about 28 percent would like to attend graduate school right away. The report said that students rated annual salary increases as the benefit that mattered most, followed by 401(k) company match, and tuition reimbursement.
Before the 2012 survey, medical insurance was the most-sought benefit among survey respondents, the survey said. Currently, insurance ranks fourth on the list. One possible explanation for the change was new federal healthcare provisions that allow students to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans until age 26.
Salary data contained in the NACE report was compiled from data derived from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the Census Bureau, and a master data set developed by Job Search Intelligence. Deseret News
